Overview

A quiet, ruthless killer strikes in London’s theatre district. Superintendent Luke thinks he has seen the pattern before. Mr. Campion wonders what became of the old couple in the country bus who must have witnessed the crime... In this exercise in suspense, the trail leads to an eccentric museum in west London, and to a scrap yard in the East End.

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Overview

A quiet, ruthless killer strikes in London’s theatre district. Superintendent Luke thinks he has seen the pattern before. Mr. Campion wonders what became of the old couple in the country bus who must have witnessed the crime... In this exercise in suspense, the trail leads to an eccentric museum in west London, and to a scrap yard in the East End.

Biography

Margery Allingham took to writing naturally, finishing her first novel while still a teenager. But it was with The Crime at Dudley Black, written in 1928, that she made her first significant mark on the crime-writing landscape. Introducing the character of Albert Campion, mild-mannered amateur detective and gentleman, she had given birth to a new style of sleuth: well-rounded, insightful and thoroughly entertaining. "To Albert Campion has fallen the honour of being the first detective to feature in a story which is also by any standard a distinguished novel," commented The Observer.

A prolific writer, she continued to produce books right up until her death in 1966, enjoying huge success on both sides of the Atlantic.

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